White Ground Lekythos Artist: Unknown

ca. 425 B.C.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

40.5 cm (15 15/16 in.)
other: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ambassador and Mrs. William Witman II, B.A. 1935

Accession Number

1993.46.26a-b

Culture

Greek, Attic

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Ambassador and Mrs. William Witman, II; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1993.
Bibliography

  • John H. Oakley, Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 112, fig. 75.
  • "Acquisitions and Gifts 1993," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 173.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

lekythoi

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